Elena

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

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Recibimos la sorprendente y tan anhelada noticia de estar esperando un bebé, aún cuando le habían dicho a mi esposa que solo sería posible por medio de tratamientos médicos. Pero ante el milagro de estar embarazados, sin ningún procedimiento, nos entregaron varios diagnósticos y surgieron muchas complicaciones que nos daban la licencia legal para abortar. En nuestras manos estaba la opción de continuar con el sueño de tener un bebé -a pesar de la difícil vida que podría tener- o apagarlo . Ante sólo dos caminos, vivimos un tercero que cambió y marcó la diferencia.

Narrador, crítico social y agudo ensayista, Francisco Ayala (1906) ha participado durante su vida en las peripecias de una historia agitada y llena de convulsiones, de la que rinde cumplido testimonio desde su personal perspectiva y con la sinceridad del intelectual que no admite compromisos ni se acoge a subterfugios. La presente edición de RECUERDOS Y OLVIDOS en el centenario del autor (1906-2006) suma a las tres entregas en que Ayala dividió en su día sus memorias, una cuarta que completa una tan prolongada vida. «Del paraíso al destierro» abarca desde su infancia hasta el final de...